Step 7: More Variations - Rivet Steampunk Pumpkin

Step 8: Steampunk Costumes

Here is the final product. Have a Happy Steampunk Halloween!!!

Here is an affordable way to turn your Halloween Trick-or-Treat plastic pumpkin bucket into a Steampunk Pumpkin. All you need is a few things lying around your own home and a bit of imagination. You don't have to use the same things I used, you are more than welcome to experiment. Hopefully this tutorial will inspire you to create your very own design. I would love to see pictures of your completed Steampunk Pumpkins!

Step 2: Pumpkin Base

1. Spray paint the outside of the plastic pumpkin bucket with the flat black spray paint. Let the paint completely dry. Important: Please use spray paint in a well ventilated area (outside is best). Tip: If you don’t like paint on your hands, I recommend wearing rubber gloves or Goo Gone. Goo Gone is how I get stubborn paint off my hands.

2. Take the X-Acto knife and *carefully* cut out the eyes, nose, and mouth. You have the option to either cut out the teeth or leave them in. Next, take the hot glue gun and start gluing the outlines of the pumpkins body, eyes, nose, and mouth. Let the hot glue cool completely before removing any spiderwebs from your pumpkin (I call the left over glue spiderwebs).

3. Take the Rub n Buff, add a little to your finger tip, and finger paint the pumpkin. Tip: This is really potent stuff, so a little goes a long way.

Just started work on my own steam punkin thanks to inspiriation from this instructable, only I've turned mine into a mask to use as part of a Halloween costume (topped with a top hat, of course). The pumpkin was $0.99 and the top hat was $9. The construction of mask is built off of an old baseball cap that my dog had already chewed up. The paints will see use on future projects, so the overall cost was very cheap, and I'll be wearing it with dress clothes that I already own, so I'll have a cheap, cool, easy to make, one-of-a-kind costume. I'm currently letting the paint dry, and while mine won't look as clean as yours does, it's already looking pretty cool. Thanks a million for the inspiration and information!

Made some mistakes and learned a lot along the way. There are several things I'd do differently next time, but overall I think it came out solid for my first ever attempt at Steam Punking anything. Here you go:

I LOVE IT! It always impresses me the things people can make with odds & ends.These are by far the coolest things I have seen on this site, I will definitely want to make one. Ty for the instructable and making the instructions clear and easy to understand. I will expect great things from you here on out. : >

I did provide the exact instructions you requested in this tutorial. There should be a yellow rectangle/box over the pictures. When you put your cursor over the yellow boxes on the pictures, you would see that I did explain what to do in detail. I consolidated the steps to Pumpkin Base, The Eyes, The Hardware, The Handle, and finally More Variations. It's easier to read the comments this way, versus putting it all below the first picture (and me having to explain which picture which instructions go with), and than the user clicking on the appropriate picture. This way, it's short, sweet, and to the point, and relevant to the picture.